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G'. H. REYNOLDS.

ToRPEDo BOAT.

UNI-'TED STATES iEOne-E n.' EEr'NOLDs, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., CORNELIUS H. DELAMATEE AND GEORGE PLACE.

l -TORPEp 4PA'IENT OFFICE.-

ASSIGNOE OE ONE-HALF TO H.' ROBINSON, BOTH SAME Y SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 246,415, dated August 30, 1881.

` i c Lpphcati'onliiled Angnst, 1878.

To all 'whom it 'may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE H. REYNOLDS, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new andy useful Im prove- 45 ments in Torpedo-Vessels, also applicable to i other submarine vessels; and I do hereby de. clare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same, referencey being 4had tothe accompanying drawings, forming 1o part of thisspecitication. l

A ltorpedo-vessel brother-submarine vessel of l cylindrical .orllV approximately cylindrical form having a screw-propeller applied in the usual way is `very liable to roll on its axis in the water, owinglto theaction of the screwi propeller, and when rudders inclinedin an upward-.and-downward direction are employed on such Aa vessel fordirectin g its course up or down in the water such rollin g or turning ot' the vessel, by producing a lateral inclination "of such rudders, makes them liable to divert the vessel from its proper course; to which end the 4in-4 vention consists inthe combination, in a torpedo-vessel or other submarine vessely Ofside rudders for directing the vessel np and down in the water' and two screw ropellers' of opposite pitches, arranged side ide, rotating in opposite dir'ections,and intermeshing, the axis of said rudders and screw-propeHersbeing all in the same transverse plane'.r

In order to better provide for the application of two screw-Propellers, as above mentioned,V and to furtherconnteract any liability of the vessel toturn, another part of the invention consists in a torpedo or other submarine vessel having a hull constructed of a cylindric body, terminating at oneend in a vertical-sided and vertical-ended wedge-shaped or ax-shaped bow and at the other end in .a horizontal-faced and horizontal-ended wedge-shaped stern.

The invention-also'consists in the combination, with a torpedo-vessel or other submarine vessel, of side roddels, mechanism, .substantially like that hereinafter described, for operating the same, and an electric cable, through whichsaidmechanism is controlled,

' The invention also consists in a novel com- -bination of mechanism for operating the side The invention also relates, in part, to torpedo 5o orother submarine vessels in which compressed air or other gas which expands at a low temperature is used to drive the propeller-engine.

In order to keep the cylinders, the valvechests, and pipes above afreezing temperature, 5 5 the entire engine, including not only the cylinders, chests, and pipes, but the cranks,rods,

f and connections, llave in such vessels been placed in a compartment within which they are all immersed'in a circulating body Of water; 6o but while it is desirableto so immerse the cyl-v inders, valve-chest, and`pipes, it is very. nndesirable to so immerse the cranks, rods, and connections,'as when s o immersed the latter meet with the resistance ofthe water in working, 65 andare also liable to rust, and are noteasily oiled and otherwise taken care ol.

, With ,a view to obtain the advantages, and

in placingthecylinders, valve-chests, and vpi pes in one compartmentof the vess'el through which water circulates, land placing the cranks, rods, and other motion transmitting connections l notive' power in a separate compnrtmentof the vessel from which water'is excluded. t

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section of-a torpedo-vessel constructed in accordance with the inven- 8,0 tion; Fig. 1*, a plan of the bow ot' the vessel; Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinalI section ofthe y `rear half or part of said vessel upon alarge scale, and Fig. 3 a plan of such portion. Figs. 4 and 5 are rear end views of the vessel in illus- 8 5 tration of the arrangement of .-thc propellershafts and their blades relatively to each other. Y A is the body portion of the; hull of the ves-- sel, of cylindrical or approximately cylindrical form, and provided with side rudders, Il B, in- 9o clinedinanupward unddownwarddirect1on,for directing the course of the vessel up or down. These rndders, which should bein duplicate by'rods b b, may be operated by means-of a gasg5 engine, O, of any suitable construction, and deriving its supply from agus aslt or resei-,

ruddern.

voir', D, .within a chamber, E, of the vessel.

at the same time to obviate the disadvanta-ges',N just above mentioned, the invention consists 7cd .which do not contain, the air or gas used for 75 near both ends ofthe vessel, and heconnccted The same dask l), which is charged with coinpressed air or other gas which expands at' a low temperature,likcwisc serves to suppl vv with the necessary power a propeller-engine, (l, and

: engine 1I for operating arudder, I, to steer the vessel laterally, and an engine, K, for rais- -ing or lowering sight-rods or targets J', which, when raised, serve to indicate the position ot' the submerged vessel. These-elements or deio vices are all fully shown and described in another specificationA for patent tiled by me in the United States Patent Oice, J une l L, 1878, and the several engines may be operated, as therein described, byelectricity through a cable, which serves the double purpose of hold.- ing the vessel in che-cl; and of operating as a conductor to stop or start each ot' all -the several engi nes and to explode the charge by means of suitable magnets, said cable beingreccived 2o` in the form of a coil within a separate chamber, F, of the vessel, and passing out i'rom the center of the coil' in an afterward direction through a pipe-or tube, L. The yessel is divided transversely by bulkheads into separate compartments or charn-v bers, including a forward chairiber M, cont-aining the explosive or charge, a chamber M containing the engine which operates the side rudders, a chamber, E, containing the gas-resero voir, a chamber, F, containingthe cable, the? rear chambers M M M, containing the engines and mechanismfor propelling the vessel and for steering it laterally bythe 'rudderL' Cer tain of vthese chambers `have the'waterfreely 3: admitted to and allowed to circulate through I th ei `n,alike for the purpose of ballastinglthe yvessel and of keepingvup a nonfreezing temperature-,of the working parts, or certaiu,. ofv

them,as hereinbeforefreierred-to; but as only 4c one part of the invention specially refers to torfpedo orothersubinerged vessels vusing corn-f pressed air or other gas 'which expands at a low temperature, and which renders a' regulationof the temperature ot' the working parts 'dei-',145 sirable, I shall now proceed to describeV n1 detail other features of the invention. f flo prevent the submarine vessel of cylindrical or approximately cylindrical form froinl rolling or, turning 'on its axis by the action o't 5o its propeller, and to prevent the vessel when j provided 'with side rudders, B B, as described,

from being diverted from -its proper forward course by the rolling or turning of the vessel,"

and which a lateral inclination of said rudders 5 5 could :not fail to produce, I combine with said rudders in such a vessel two screwpropellers, N N, having'oppositc pitches, andv arranged s ide by side, and rotating in opposite direc tions-as, for instance, by bevel-gears c c d d 6o and parallel propellershaits c motion from the engine Grt, These pz'opellers N N have theirrespectivc blades arranged iniex'mediately ofone another, as clear-l;v shown 1n Fig. 4, and are so geared that the tiesy of the blue nearly rinse te ti of each prluzeller :vork rlraf't or hub ot' the other connecti propeller, whereby propellers of a 'large size may be used on a vessel of comparatively' plicaton of duplicate ..screwpropellers, asv

above described, I construct the stern A of thc vessel, havin g a cylindrical or, approximately form, ha'vingits edges'or extremities in a horiv cylindrical hull, ofawedgeshaped orax-shaped zontal direction, also further combine with said stern a wedge-shaped or ax-shaped bow, A2, havingvertical sides 1'YV and end r. Such constructionfof the stern and bow offers a large resistance to any tendeucyoi' the vessel to turn e 0n its axis, and the-propellers N N, arranged side by lside and occupying a position in rear f of the horizontal wedge-shaped stern, with 'both ot' their axes in aplane coincident with the hori zontal edge s ofthe stern A', always work in a compact body of Water, inasmuch as the water j displaced. by the hull in its forward movement passes easily over and under the stern into the space vsurroundin g the propellers, thuscon- `trib'utin'g. to the eiici'ency of the propellers.

The arrangement of thegdiierent parts of,

thev engine is vshown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the cylinder G, with its valve-chests and pipes', be-

ing arranged Within lone compartment', M3, of thcvessehin which water from outside thejvessel'is allowed to circulate freely through the openings 11, and the cranks 1:,connecting-rods` t', valve-rods j k, and other motion-transmitting connections heingarranged in a separate com.-v

partment,M,from which water isexcluded.

By this arrangement the motion-transmitting l s arejre'lieved from resistance offer'edtojth ir niotionby-- water,`and theyare or adju'str nfent.` .JWhatlclaim/,as my invention, and desire-A i to secur'eby I Jgetters Patent, isf- Thecomb'natiom-in a torpedo orvother submarine vessel, of side rudders for directing;`

the'vfes's'eliup'and down in the water, and tivo' screw-propellersofopposite pitches, arranged sideiby side, rotating in opposite` directions,

andintermeshingth'e axes of said rudders and screw-propellers beinerv all .i-n the same transverseplane, substantially as specified.

. #KA torpedo-vessel or other submarine ves 'selhaving a yhull constructed of a cylindrc les :5J .The combination, with a torpedo-vesselor othery submarine vessel, ot'side rndders, mechu hich said mechanism is controlledfsubstantially as specified.

C l i. 'lliecomuinarion. with atorpciio-vesselo1 ies kbetter;protected agalnstgrusa'audalsoaremore c acces'siblefortheypurpose of oling, repairii`ig, I

izo body, terminating at' one epd in'a vertical-f i' .sided and vertical-endedwedgeshaped or ail Shapedbow and at the other end in a hfirizolh.` y taLfawl and horizontateiided Wedge-shaped stern, substantially as specified.

c, deriving their Y' 5 moves, substantially as other submarine vessel, of side rudders and a shaft upon which they are xed, a toothed sector upon said. shaft, a piston provided with'a rack-bar, andaoylinder in which said piston specified. l

5. A submarinevessel provided with an engine for its propulsion, and divided into two or more compartments, one of which compartments containsthe oylinder,valvechest, pipes,

1o and other parte of said engine, which receive within them the air or gaseous inid used for and other motion-transmitting parts of said 15 engine, and has the water excluded from it, substantially asl specified.

GEO. H. REYNOLDS.

l Witnesses:

HENRY T. BROWN, T. J. KEANE. 

